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Musical Moon -- Sailormoon Musical Lyrics

Date Reviewed: February 23, 2005

Category: The Bland

Neptune

General Site-Musical Moon...a nice site but the fact that this is on Angelfire suprises me. This is a well known site and after xx number of years on the web, I would of hoped that it would of been moved to a better host. Oh well. Many know this site by the sheer fact of Lyric translations. Not just any translations though. Myu translations! Woot! This is one of the best sites to come to if you need to know what the heck is being sung by your oh so favorite Myu star(s). However, the site has not been updated for well over a year and it's a shame as there are a few Myu perfomances that haven't made it here. Well, let's just get to the review then.

Layout-Easy navigation but it's quite old. Nothing has changed since I viewed it back in early 2003. >.> Although everything is consistant, I would like to see a change. The only real drawback is the background but more on that later. The menu is on the left hand side and starts off with the first musical and goes from there. Though it stops at the 'Legend of the Shooting Stars' musical (I'm not counting the Eternal/Dark Side Edition CDs).
When clicking on any link the layout changes but it's "the same" for each link. Meaning no different background colors or bright text...yada yada yada. There is a home button at the bottom which is good to see, especially on a site like this. Numerous lyrics and one can get lost. Clicking the back button is annoying, ne! *ahem* Moving on!

Content-Well duh! This site is dedicated to Myu lyrics and lyrics ONLY! You won't find music or videos here. This site is strictly lyrics. Like I mentioned before the lryics stop at the 'Legend of the Shooting Stars' musical which happened in 03 I believe. A few new songs have been recorded since then so I hope somebody will take the time to translate them and share. Other then the lyrics there isn't anything worth viewing on the site. AHAHAHA...that was an ironic statement. Ok moving on.

Background/Text-The background used "behind" the layout is...well...how to put it, mush. I like the colors, don't get me wrong, but they do NOTHING for this site. The text doesn't hurt my eyes or anything like that so that's the only plus there. My suggestion is to freshin up the site by redoing the layout with a different colored background (if you're gonna stick with the same layout style.)

Overall Opinion-Well if you couldn't tell by now then I don't know what's wrong with you. The site is wonderful for the fact that it offers Myu lovers (or newcomers) translations of their beloved songs. I just wish the site will be updated in the near future with a kick ass layout that screams "Boo YA!" or something like that. I reccommend the site even though I don't like the background color choice. ^_^

Pluto

Design and Integrity:
Finally something easy on the eyes. I love the way the content is in order. The design is simple...loving it...not too over the top. This site is on a free account with Angelfire but the site is mangagable as it specializes in lyrics which take up next to no space and don't require a lot of bandwidth so I will overlook the free account as this person knows what a free account is capable of. Despite the Angelfire ad codes, this site's coding is clean and easy to read and compiled very well.

Content:
I feel the improvement would be pop ups for the lyrics but it is minor as a home button is available for you to re-access the main page. The content is nice and neat with tables very nice. A great resource for lyics well done.

Overall:
Good site! Despite the free account and the links I really like this site! Good job!

Saturn

Alright I can't read the links on the left of this site very well because they are an aqua blue on a cadet blue. So Control+A it is for me tonight.

I am however happy that this is a Myu site. There needs to be a better amount of Myu sites on the web these days.

There isn't much to review here as there are lyrics for the many Myu. It is simple and to the point. As such, there isn't much to review.

However I will state this. It is nice to see a site that sticks to what they said they are going to do. The site design needs some work and needs to get off angelfire, however it is a nice start. I would like to see it go somewhere better in the future.

Uranus

Ooh, a musical site! Is that good? Yes! Writing, graphics, and HTML, you have to do all three! Ooh. And so, with a reference to one of the funnier scenes in Sailor Stars, we begin exploring Musical Moon, a hybrid of the site which is completely dedicated to Sailor Moon lyrics and the ones that are for general anime lyrics but accept submissions from the outside.

The last update to this site was a year and a half ago, but that really doesn't matter because the site seems to have accomplished its mission of cataloguing the lyrics to all the Sera Myu songs. I'm no expert on the musicals, but if they're all here, then the site has indeed done that. None of the tracks on any of the CDs are missing. Well, except for the instrumentals and karaoke versions, but that goes without saying. There's also an alphabetical listing, which is very nice to have since fewer people know songs solely from the album they are on.

The layout is also very well done for a lyrics site. The home page has smaller text for a blog feel, but the track listings and the lyrics themselves are regular size. Unfortunately, there's none of the site stuff that can clutter up other sites but is sorely needed here. Even if there were just a site history and the e-mail address had its own page, just to give it a deeper feel. But no real complaints, the work is done. Even the Angelfire banner doesn't get in the way too much.

If anything, it's a shame they didn't stick around to add other stuff onto the site. Perhaps they could have done some PGSM lyrics, although those are plentiful enough. Or a guide to the musicals and where to see them. Or a guide to the translations. Anything to give the site more meat.

So, yeah, it's a simple site that does what it purports to do and is unique. If every site were like this there would be a lot less need for a site like us to complain about it. If you're a Myu fan, keep this site handy as a reference.

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